The assertion that men are from Mars and women from Venus has long been derided as a trivialisation of complex biology. Scientists have argued for decades over whether the well-known stereotypes of men being bad at multitasking, and women being more nurturing and better communicators, reflect innate biology or if they’re more a consequence of social norms and expectations.
As a notorious workaholic and stickler for his daily routine, taking a step back as he undergoes cancer treatment is unlikely to come easy to King Charles, even at the age of 75.
Measles, the great scourge of infants during Victorian England, is back with a vengeance. It doesn’t seem so long ago that the World Health Organisation was declaring that the viral infection – which can spread to the brain and cause neurological complications as well as pneumonia – had been eliminated in England, thanks to the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.